Hello,
I have a VMware ESXi 5.0.0, 623860 host running two Windows VM's pretty well. The host hardware is an HP Proliant DL 380 G5 server.
This host is GBit Ethernet connected to an HP Procurve 2810-48G (J9022A) switch via two Cat 5e UTP cables.
I want to configure a ethernet trunk using the two ports of switch for fault tolerance and link failover disaster.
I telnet the switch and configure the ports as Trunk3 with TRUNK option (not LACP) as shown in this pic:
At the ESXi side I go to the vSphere Clent at the Configuration --> Networking --> vSwitch0 --> Propreties --> Edit --> NIC Teaming and set the Load Balancing option to "Route Based on IP hash" as shown in the next pic:
At this point with or without reboot the Procurve or the ESXi host I can ping the host and the two virtual machines in it, but after about 10/15 minuts I loose the connectivity to the host (ping stops). Then if I disconnet one of the UTP cables the connectons resumes.
I'm not sure if those are the right configurations for my purpose, so any help would be very appreciated.
Thaks a lot.
OLIVEIRAS